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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #225 on: April 10, 2018, 20:16:14 »
Nice Peter!

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #226 on: April 10, 2018, 23:21:39 »
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #227 on: April 12, 2018, 15:42:04 »
Pagoda at dusk.
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #228 on: April 12, 2018, 21:41:59 »
Taken last summer.

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #229 on: April 12, 2018, 22:05:28 »
After a mid-winter wash

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #230 on: April 13, 2018, 01:49:06 »
A sunset shot this evening......and a shot of the other side using the light from the sun...... and then, a few minutes later, with almost no light.
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #231 on: April 13, 2018, 07:10:36 »
Beautiful pictures Ralph, love the colour of you'r car.

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #232 on: April 15, 2018, 20:16:10 »
DPreston, Gerster, CCollum & Ralph,

Very nice additions to this thread.   Great shots.

« Last Edit: April 16, 2018, 04:21:38 by kampala »
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #233 on: April 30, 2018, 13:18:23 »

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #234 on: April 30, 2018, 16:42:38 »
Wonderful shot!
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #235 on: April 30, 2018, 21:22:45 »
Great shot!

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #236 on: April 30, 2018, 22:00:07 »
Yep, great photo!
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #237 on: May 21, 2018, 20:47:42 »
Taking her out of hibernation.

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #238 on: August 04, 2018, 13:34:51 »
My 1966 230SL

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #239 on: August 04, 2018, 23:15:12 »
Got to love the old pics. 

What a 250sl looks like one month after taking delivery.  Delivered on March 23,1967, pic taken April 1967 in Italy.  The male in the pic is my wife's father who bought the car in March 1967, and the female was his girlfriend at the time.   

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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #240 on: August 05, 2018, 09:50:35 »
And, below is a 280SL one month after delivery!  Taken in Arenzano Italy.

 As I continue taking pictures the favorite changes.  The second picture below, and my latest favorite, was taken at MBUSI at Starfest2018 in May.
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #241 on: August 05, 2018, 20:38:35 »
My screen saver and a day at the beach

Two of my favourites.
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #242 on: August 05, 2018, 23:54:02 »
This is a shot of our 20SL taken last September at our cabin retreat in the mountains of western Virginia.  We stopped there on the return leg back to D.C from Ashville NC after the conclusion of the Southern Tour down the Blue Ridge Parkway from PUB 2017. Just short of 1500 miles in two weeks, with only 85 total Interstate miles!
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #243 on: August 06, 2018, 14:32:06 »
Got to love the old pics. 
What a 250sl looks like one month after taking delivery.
Alex, That is your current car? That is a very nice color combo you don't see every day. What is the hard top/wheel cover color? Almost looks like 906 Grey-Blue.
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #244 on: August 06, 2018, 20:27:54 »
This is a shot of our 20SL taken last September at our cabin retreat in the mountains of western Virginia...
Nice shot Mike, your color combo goes well with the setting.  Is there a story that goes with the millstone in the chimney!
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #245 on: August 06, 2018, 22:39:19 »
The body is 181 Light Beige, and the Hard Top and Hubs are Light Blue 334 - Same as Garry's. 

As I've been told by the old German mechanic who worked on the car back in the 70's & 80's for my father in law, he screwed up things on the car from time to time when he worked on it himself, but he did definitely got the color combination correct.   
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #246 on: August 07, 2018, 00:44:16 »
Yes there is:  When we were building the cabin 25 years ago Lucy wanted a stone foundation and chimney.  Tommy, one of the guys who worked for our contractor, did the stonework using rocks from an old collapsed farmhouse up on the mountain.  One day Lucy and I were there inspecting the work and noticed that one of the stones laid into the foundation had furrows in its flat surface that strongly indicated it had been a fragment of a millstone and asked him if there might be other millstone rocks from that farmhouse that he could use when erecting the chimney.  Tommy said, "I can do you one better, my pappy has a pair of French millstones laying around in his backyard that he salvaged from my grand pap's mill down on Jackson River after it burned down during WW II."


The bed (stationary) stone was set into the chimney and the runner (driven) stone was later set into the side wall when we built the garage, facing it's mate across the yard on the cabin.
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #247 on: August 07, 2018, 06:34:11 »
Great story and great looking garage!  I am partial to stone and stone chimneys. This is the stone farmhouse I restored in Italy.  Unfortunately something very un-Pagoda like in front. :(
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #248 on: August 07, 2018, 07:24:06 »
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Re: favorite picture of your car
« Reply #249 on: August 07, 2018, 07:25:49 »
What a beautiful house, Ralph!
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